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Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

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Post by doener » Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 6:41 AM UTC

Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files
obsidian.md

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Post by conradludgate » Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 10:12 AM UTC

I really do need to get started on a personal wiki. I might give this a try.

It would be nice if I can get the files into git that I can save to a private github repo (I'm fine paying the one time payment to support them but $8/month seems too much for a simple sync feature)

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Post by jammaloo » Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 10:32 AM UTC

conradludgate wrote: post #2

I really do need to get started on a personal wiki. I might give this a try. It would be nice if I can get the files into git that I can save to a private github repo (I'm fine paying the one time payment to support them but $8/month seems too much for a simple sync feature)

I've been playing with this app for a few minutes, and it does appear to save everything in plain text files, so adding it to git would be straightforward.

I'm currently saving into a dropbox folder, which gives me automatic syncing.

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Post by Version467 » Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 10:38 AM UTC

conradludgate wrote: post #2

I really do need to get started on a personal wiki. I might give this a try. It would be nice if I can get the files into git that I can save to a private github repo (I'm fine paying the one time payment to support them but $8/month seems too much for a simple sync feature)

Since it's just markdown files, using a fit repo to sync it is trivial. There's even an obsidian plugin to automatically commit/push in regular intervals (i.e. every 30 minutes).

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Post by gala8y » Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 10:39 AM UTC

conradludgate wrote: post #2

I really do need to get started on a personal wiki. I might give this a try. It would be nice if I can get the files into git that I can save to a private github repo (I'm fine paying the one time payment to support them but $8/month seems too much for a simple sync feature)

https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git

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Post by chaoskanzlerin » Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 10:45 AM UTC

Here's an older HN thread with the author in it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23324598

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Post by u-rate » Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 10:45 AM UTC

Great software, 100% recommend.

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Post by throwaway81523 » Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 10:50 AM UTC

Spoiler: "Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. "

Thanks but org mode seems to handle that kind of thing just fine.

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Post by rvieira » Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 10:51 AM UTC

Obsidian is great. I'm a paying supporter (catalyst and sync).

Weirdly I started playing with Emacs + org-mode recently (never been an Emacs user before!) and I'm seriously considering making it my exclusive "second brain".

Something about org-mode, org-babel, org-jupyter, org-agenda and org-roam that just clicks with me.

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Post by jstx1 » Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 10:55 AM UTC

rvieira wrote: post #9

Obsidian is great. I'm a paying supporter (catalyst and sync). Weirdly I started playing with Emacs + org-mode recently (never been an Emacs user before!) and I'm seriously considering making it my exclusive "second brain". Something about org-mode, org-babel, org-jupyter, org-agenda and org-roam that just clicks with me.

Emacs is so customisable that as soon as I want to customise anything, I get lost searching for solutions online and inevitably give up on using Emacs altogether.